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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Ceremony.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Auntie take from Tayo when he is a small boy and will not return to him?
(a) A picture of his mother
(b) A picture of his father
(c) The name and address of his father
(d) A letter from his mother

2. With what were the walls of the Ts’eh’s cabin plastered?
(a) Red Clay
(b) Black porcelain mud
(c) Joint compound
(d) Gray mud

3. What is the main thing wrong with white people, according to the creation legend?
(a) They cannot feel the path of light because their aura is too dense
(b) Their souls separate from their bodies when they are born
(c) They see only objects and not living creatures or living earth
(d) They do not know what happened to their souls

4. Where does Tayo's mother live?
(a) She is homeless
(b) In an apartment in Gallup
(c) In a house in Santa Fe
(d) In a trailer on the Sioux reservation

5. In one of the poems, who is Reed Woman's sister?
(a) Sand Woman
(b) Tree Woman
(c) Corn Woman
(d) Sky Woman

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Tayo, Leroy and Emo earn in the war?

2. What does the woman with reddish hair do when white men come to harass the women at the arroyo?

3. What does Ku’oosh smell like?

4. Where do the holy men look when they want to know the time to dance for rain?

5. What does Tayo feel about the medicine man’s possessions?

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